And even this idea leaves it up to Ofsted to decide what constitutes a failing school.
"If this plan is working, what would a failing one look like?" So asks Martin Wolf in response to David Cameron's speech insisting that his austerity policy was right, is right, and is succeeding.
He has successfully used internationalism to rebrand what was a failing school and the victim of "white flight" - white parents deserting the school in response to an influx of children of immigrant families.
"It's clear that in the telecom sector where you've had some real problems with overcapacity, some real problems in the business, it appears that some of these cost-cutting efforts and cooking the books occurred to basically hide what was a failing business practice," Michael G. Oxley, Republican of Ohio and chairman of the Financial Services Committee, said today on "Fox News Sunday".
It does not need to convert to a 4.0 scale, but should show differentiation between passing scores, and indicate what is a failing score at your institution.
What was a failing school in a deprived area has, he insists, been transformed by a new building and a new approach to learning, with a dramatic improvement in the GCSE results achieved by students.
Today, Barneys New York remains a purveyor of cool, trumpeting such niche fashion brands as Loomstate, 3.1 Phillip Lim and Daryl K. Pressman's strategy turned what was a failing retailer into a $1 billion acquisition target.
Despite a somewhat rocky start and a thin budget, the duo and their team managed to turn what was a failing business into, well, not exactly a raging success.
Transition's first single "What Hath God Wrought" marries what sounds like a failing radio transmission with a concerto, pulling off both grace and pensiveness at once.
